Facebook post irritates AG's office

Judge refuses to seal file of lawyer's death row client

10:45 PM,
Aug. 31, 2013

Jeffrey Havard

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A lawyer's Facebook post invoking a Kris Kristofferson song had the Mississippi attorney general's office singing the blues, calling on the court to seal the file of that lawyer's death row client.

On Friday, the judge in the case, U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett, found that request out of tune, saying the Facebook post that quoted from Kristofferson's song, "To Beat the Devil," failed to justify sealing the public court records.

Jackson lawyer Graham Carner is defending Jeffrey Havard, who has been on death row for a decade, convicted of sexually assaulting and killing his ...